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Seneca the Younger Quotes: Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
         

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.


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